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Business and the Law 16 LEGT 1710
Business and the Law Course Assessment
Assignment 1:
• AVAILABLE NOW ON BLACKBOARD
• This assignment is a legal research exercise
• Due Week 5: week beginning Monday 13
August
• Must be handed to your tutor in your Week 5
tutorial class Course Assessment
Assignment 2:
• Due Monday 17 September
• This assignment will be a problem question that
will require students to advise on the legal
liability of one or more parties
• Must upload onto Blackboard (Turnitin) by 5pm
on Monday 17 September
• Hard copy to be submitted to by 5pm on
Tuesday 18 September
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Business and the Law
Prescribed text Course Assessment
Final exam:
• At end of the semester: date to be advised
• Final exam will: • Paul Latimer, Australian Business Law (CCH,
31st ed, 2012)
• Earlier editions are not encouraged as there
have been significant changes to the law,
resulting in updates to the 2012 edition of this
book cover all topics discussed in both the lectures and
tutorials
be ‘closed book’: no materials allowed into the exam 19 20 LEGT 1710
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Business and the Law Overview of Weekly Topics
•
• Week 1 Lecture Week 1:
Week 2: Introduction - the role of law in business
Role of the courts, legal reasoning and statutory
interpretation
• Weeks 3-6: Contract law
• Week 7:
Property law
Mid-semester break 3 to 7 September 2012
• Weeks 8-9: Tort law
• Week 10:
Consumer law
• Week 11:
Competition law
• Week 12:
Business Structures; Risk Management/Compliance • Sources of law
Statute law
Common law
Equity • Classification of laws • Origins of Australian law Number of ways law is classified
Inherited England’s Westminster system
Federation 1901
The Australian Constitution
Commonwealth/State powers
Separation of Powers
Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary (next week) (See Course Outline for weekly readings) 21 LEGT 1710
Business and the Law 22 What is law? Week 1: Overview
On completion of this week you should be able to:
Explain the nature of law in our society
Identify the different ways laws can be classified
Distinguish between the different types of legal systems
Identify the different sources of Australian Law
Give a brief history of Australian law and the Australian
legal system
Identify the main characteristics of the Australian legal
system
23 the law is a systematic set of rules to contr...
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